Reports the context in which the band is being rendered.

Property of

Band

Description

Check the band’s context property to determine the context in which it’s being rendered. context is a read-only enumerated property that can have the following values:

Value

Context

0

Normal

1

For drilldown summary

For detail bands, the value will always be Normal, since they are never rendered in the drilldown summary. For footer and header bands, the value will change accordingly.

The context property is checked primarily during the canRender event of components in a header or footer band when the header or footer is shown in both the summary and details in a drilldown report; you can change the content of the component accordingly.